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Parenting Children with Mental Health Challenges: A Guide to Life with Emotionally Complex Kids offers overwhelmed readers guidance, solidarity, and hope. The author, a “mental-health mom” who’s survived indignity, exhaustion, and the heartbreak of loving a child with multiple mental-health disorders, writes with frankness and occasional humor about the hardest parenting job on earth. Drawing on her own experiences and those of other parents,...
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English
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"The lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New England family, are torn apart when fourteen-year-old Marjorie begins to display signs of acute schizophrenia. To her parent's despair, the doctors are unable to stop Marjorie's descent into madness. As their stable home devolves into a house of horrors, they reluctantly turn to a local Catholic priest for help. Father Wanderly suggests an exorcism; he believes the vulnerable teenager is the victim...
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W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"One night in 2009, Tanya Frank finds her nineteen-year-old son, Zach--gentle and full of promise--in the grip of what the psychiatrists would label a psychotic break. Suddenly and inexplicably, Tanya is thrown into a parallel universe: Zach's world, where the phones are bugged, his friends have joined the Mafia, and helicopters are spying on his family. In the years following Zach's shifting psychiatric diagnoses, Tanya goes to war for her son, desperate...
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Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
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The author uses her own experience growing up with a mentally ill sister to pen this intensely moving novel. Set in the heart of the deep South, Looking for Mary Gabriel is the story of Bonita, a young girl who desperately wants her family to be normal, despite their strange behavior. Bonita's little sister, Mary, does not act like the other neighborhood kids, and Bonita vacillates between adoring her sister and hating her. Likewise, Bonita's mother...
11) My lost daughter
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Lily Forrester novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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Lily is a tough judge in Ventura County, California, who has overcome adversity and heartache to achieve a position of power to help those who cant́ help themselves. Like the current case before her, the sensational murder trial of a woman who tortured and killed her beautiful two-year old son. Lily is determined to see justice done but sheś thrown for a loop when she receives word that her own daughter, Shana, months away from graduating from...
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Victoria Oliver will do anything to ensure that her troubled son has some semblance of a childhood. Danielle Burton is a dedicated nurse at a locked-down pediatric psych ward. But she remains haunted by a family tragedy. The dark anniversary is approaching, and when veteran Boston police detective D. D. Warren shows up at the facility, Danielle realizes it has started again. The lives of these three women unfold and connect in unexpected ways, as...
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Avon Books
Pub. Date
1995, c1982
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Thirteen-year-old Conrad decides to pay a surprise visit to his divorced parents in New York and comes face to face with bitter reality. The friendship of an emotionally troubled girl helps to sustain him through the crisis.
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Over the past two decades, Colorado's identification process for students with Significant Identifiable Emotional Disabilities (SIED) has undergone a number of revisions. Such changes have contributed to a lack of clarity on the part of educators around criteria, assessment, policies, and programming. A primary purpose of this guidebook is to provide a practical resource that contributes to the consistent identification of students with emotional...
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